Creature Features Episode 116: Great White

At the end of the 1970's following the overwhelming success of Steven Spielberg's Jaws , studios smelled blood in the water and began churning out as many ocean terror films as possible. Not to be outdone, Film ventures International the studio responsible for a series of thinly veiled plagiarism pieces acquired the rights to Enzo G. Castellari's all too familiar tale of an Oceanside town terrorized by one of earths oldest predators. The film was subsequently taken to trial and pulled from theaters after one week of release. A blow that would spell the end for distributors FVI causing them to shortly after file for bankruptcy. On March 5th, 1982 Enzo Castellari's GREAT WHITE was released. Giving audiences a monster they feared for a limited time